On 27–28 November 2024, around 150 stakeholders from the Youth, Education, and Training sectors across 26 EU countries gathered in Tallinn, Estonia for the Participation Forum, organized by SALTO Participation & Information. Martina Paone was representing EUDEC and had 3 days full on interesting and inspiring meetings, workshops and networking. EUDEC`s Counsil Member and co-founder […]
The 30th International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) 2023 in Nepal has called on the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to clarify that “compulsory education” means a guarantee of universal access to education and does not mean forcing a child to attend school. EUDEC supports the resolution and joins the call […]
Hello there! A group from the Freie Schule Leipzig made up of current and former students and teachers will host a student-focused* event from 16-19 February 2024. Our idea is to simply have fun together and possibly connect students and graduates from different EUDEC schools! REMINDER: PLEASE REGISTER BY 1 JANUARY!
As you perhaps already know the next EUDEC conference will be held in Bulgaria! Finally, after having to cancel it in 2020… We are planning to ensure all the needed conditions for everyone to have big fun as well as to learn, discuss and play together as always. The location is the Training Center of […]
My name is Eva Kleinlein and I am currently working on an international research project on Inclusive Schooling Practices of Teachers Worldwide. Therefore, I am searching for teachers and educators who are interested in sharing their experiences in teaching diversity in an online survey. The survey is divided into two parts which each take about 15 minutes. As the […]
Our democratic school called “Slobodná škola” located at Ťahanovská 74, Košice, Slovakia, was main user of interior and community garden we established in 2017. As we are only 90km from Ukrainian borders and largest city around (250 000 inhabitants), since the war outbreak we have been offering support to refugees coming to Kosice. Our school […]
Call for Papers Within the framework of the Erasmus+ project “LabSchoolsEurope – Participatory Research for Democratic Education” we would like to invite interested educators across Europe to contribute to this Call for Papers for the series “Forschungsperspektiven” (Research Perspectives) of the University College of Teacher Education Vienna (ISSN 2412-799X). This volume will be published in […]
European Democratic Education Community participation in the global conversation called by UNESCO’s “Futures of education” project Knowledge production, access and governance Threats to knowledge becoming a global common good. There is a widespread global decline in student interest in compulsory, coercive, prescribed curriculum in many state school systems which is not found where students have […]
32 years ago, Romania was one of the soviet satellite states which was granted freedom after more than 40 years of communism – first 18 of stalinism. This freedom came with deep moral and material problems, still unsolved – this is why the Romanian society is still highly corrupted, and the brain drainage is huge. […]
Liebe freie und demokratische Schulen, liebe EUDEC, lieber BFAS, ein bisschen aufgeregt schicken wir euch nun endlich diese Mail. Seit drei Jahren arbeiten wir an der Konzeption einer demokratischen Weiterbildung für Lehrkräfte mit dem Anspruch, die Lehrer*innenausbildung zu verändern. Bei uns sind Lehrkräfte aller Schulformen und damit auch freier und demokratischer Schulen willkommen und eingeladen, […]